Elite Indian Space Organisation ISRO Opens Its Doors To Private Firms
India's premier space organisation, which is directly overseen by the PM’s office, is one of just six space agencies around the world to boast launch
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Elite Indian Space Organisation ISRO Opens Its Doors To Private Firms India's premier space organisation, which is directly overseen by the PM’s office, is one of just six space agencies around the world to boast full launch capabilities, the capacity to carry out extra-terrestrial missions, and operate large fleets of artificial satellites The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), credited with finding evidence of water on the Moon and successful Mars project, has opened its facilities to the private sector for the first time in five decades. The ISRO has joined with MapmyIndia, an Indian geospatial technology company in New Delhi that offers location-based software service to develop geospatial solutions. For this, ISRO is going to share its satellite images. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed between ISRO and MapmyIndia on 11 February, allows the combined geospatial expertise of the Department and CE Info Systems (MapmyIndia) to be leveraged. "This collaboration will enable both teams to jointly identify and build holistic geospati…
